As someone who is probably on the younger side of the demographic, I have to say, I LIKE trad music, and it's not the trad music that makes me avoid some folk clubs. It's the incessant acoustic 60s and 70s covers and singer-songwriter material in that style. The ones I enjoy and go back to are the ones where people are singing, passing on, and putting their own 'stamp' on tradiitonal and material in the traditional style. Other people will have other tastes, but please don't think that it's the trad music that's offputting to all "the youngsters". To me, there's nothing more offputting than a folk club turning into a 4th rate pop-idol.
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